Newsmax Article: Pollster Dustin Olson "Cuomo Underestimated in NYC"
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Newsmax | Byline: Sandy Fitzgerald
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Pollsters underestimated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's enduring influence in New York City while overestimating the strength of Republican candidates in several other key races, longtime GOP strategist and pollster Dustin Olson said Wednesday on Newsmax.
Appearing on "Wake Up America," Olson, who also hosts the "Political Trade Secrets" podcast, said results from elections in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia show that "a lot of pollsters were doing 2021 models when it was more like a 2017 election."
"In New York City, people underestimated what Cuomo might be able to pull off and also overestimated [democratic socialist Zohran] Mamdani," Olson said.
Olson pointed to problems in public polling, saying many survey firms rely too heavily on online panels, where respondents are paid to take surveys, rather than traditional voter outreach.
"We call it panel trash, and a lot of those polls were done that way," he said...